The Brookhaven leader., 1887-04-21
sEwlNo.woMsN's WAGES.
Thp Low wages PAID By Clothing MsuuA
facturers In Largo Cities.

Tho Low wages PAID By Clothing Mauu'
/ fseturers I'm Largo Cities.
Eyes. we have been cut down shame
fully In tho past four or FIVE years, and
ara not able to make o living alone now"
said an old LAZY that lives in the 9th hoor
Of q Third street tenement house TO q
! Cincinnati T1ses reporter the other morn
ing. She has been making pants and
vests for wholesale clothiers here for
fifteen years, as sue has been a widow for
@ number Of years and by hard work has
/ succeeded IN raising three daughters and
] two sons.
You still work ct the busInessr' asksi
! the reporter.
! 'Oh, yes, for got along better than I
/ used 10, "a my girls are now OLD enough to
/ help me, but II ] ha Il to do Sc alone, as /
did when we were paid more, l would be
swsmped. No one of us could make liv-
i"g now. but ~ caste no more TO keep us
now than formerly, anu the four Of US
make, and manage to get along very well. !"
"What prices are you getting nowi'
Here are some pants,' and the old lady
with locks that have long since told the
s,ct+ of LIES winter by their Wilderness,
handed the writer a pair of ieaEs pants Of
the cheapest quality, "that am making
for enc dollar a dozen, or eight and one
third cents apiece"
"How many pairs of these can you make
In day by working ten hours:'
Not moro than three pairs to save my
soul, and you can readily see that no fami-
" like mine eould exist on twenty-five
cents a day. But want 10 be fair with
you. When was young 1 expect l could
make five or six pairs If worked as fast
as could and did nothing else, but in
those days / got 81 30 and IS q dozen for
y iy.lS ar,6
myself, by denying them every priv
!loge o. goirg ont and all Of US living as
slaves we arc abe to maize about SIC
week, as we turn out about 80 pairs, or
twelve dozen, every Saturday night"
"Are these tho lowest rr.css you know
ofYn
mo, know OF q woman that is making
about the same quality OF work as this
and is only getting ninety cents for
dozen pairs.h
"Different firms NAV vary in pricesp
ayes, they do. There Is all tho differ
eacc in the world in the firm one works
for. Now [ knoV" Of some that will find
fault with every thing, and will put or
paying their sewing women rs long as
possible. WHY, know OF ono firm that
would not allow the women that worked
for them to enter their store at the public
footed ana told HIM that IL wasn't good
enough to walk in tho same door other
people did | wasn't good enough 10 sew
on his pants. II
"In which IS there the moss money
coats, pants or vestsi"
II can do better with pants. Vests
would do very we'll if it was not for the
button-hole5 to make in them. But coats,
there IS mighty little in them, tell you.
There is good deal of WORK to make
COATS. How people can sew them for O
dollar dozen l can't understan3.o
Don't the manufacturers pay according
20 the amount Of work.!
NO they sccm to pay according to the
quality of the goods, but they require just
rs good and ~ much work On the cheap
goods as on tho laarc eXpensivci'
Then prices are getting lower all the
tmc:"
"Ycs, for work that we rs9d to get 50,
e -, $50 ana s. we now get from 81 cents
10 81 10